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pollen

(Science: plant biology) The microspores of seed plants, the powdery mass of microspores shed from anthers.


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The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... believe that beyond their "pollination syndrome" plants have chemical signaling pathways that prevent intra-generic pollination (ie rose pollen lands on iris stigma - nothing happens). On a side note: In my part of the world, the wild irises hybridize so commonly it can be infuriating ...

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by AstusAleator
Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:21 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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Views: 2138

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... did the field work of self and cross-pollination). But the corn never pollinated the soy beans or the alfalfa just across the road, though the pollen would have traveled to them.

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by AFJ
Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:25 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
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Views: 2138

Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... had it and my readings were increasingly pre-diabetic. The bloat & weight loss were an unexpected bonus. Also, I am not suffering from tree pollen this spring and the pollen counts here are astonomical. Good luck!

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by laddieboy
Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:02 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Views: 483349

Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... quantities in green food supplements like spirulina, the chlorella plant, in the barley greens, in the green kamut, in substances like bee pollen and in the royal jelly-all of these will prove to be effective and potent additives to the remedial measures taken against the symptoms of leaky ...

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by Jennuan
Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:21 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Re: Genetic modification

... animal farms that eat GM plants might be harmed by the bacterial DNA in it, or by the Bt toxin. -Insects that are not pests could be killed. Maize pollen with the toxin is blown onto wild plants growing near the maize. Insects feeding on the wild plants are therefore affected even if they do no ...

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by Persephone
Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:19 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Genetic modification
Replies: 7
Views: 1376
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